Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-13
FORGIVENESS.

ana That always seem out OF the way oil
everything. They know nothing about
political events, notwithstanding they
talk ahout them al table, for them
changes in the government are matters
which take place NJ such distance. that
they can only be spoken oi rs historical
faCts-like !he death of Louis XVI, or the
dlsembarking Of Napoleon.
The SaNiCn"ls married their daughter
Berthe at the age of Is She married a
young man from Paris. named Georges
Baron, who WAS connected with the tx
change lie was handsome fellow,
talked well. had All exterior manner in all
respects calculated To inspire confidence;
but within himself he made fun of his old
fashioned parcUts-in-law, whom he spoke
Of 10 his friends as My dear fossils"
He belonged To a good family; and his
young wife was rich. He took her 10
, Paris To live.
Then she became one of that peculiar
provincial class so numerous in the me-
tropolis. She remained totally ignorant
of the great city-ignorant of its fashion
able society, its pleasures and its ways
Just as she had always remained ignorant
of life and its perfidies and its mysteries
Always shut up in her own household,
she knew little of any street except her
own, and if she ever ventured into another
quarter il seemed to her like a long VOYAGE
10 some foreign and unfamiliar city She
would say. in the evening:
Il crossed the boulevards today"
Two or three times year her husband
took her 10 the theatre These rare
smuSements were great events for her,
which she never forgot the impression of,
and WAS always talking about.
sometimes three months afterwsrd she
would susldenly burst cut laughing at
table. and cry ont:
Don't You remember that actor in the
generals uniform who crowed like a
cock"
All her acquaintances were limited 10
two families distantly related to her own,
and these two families represented all she
knew Of humanity. She always spoke of
them as the Martinetsn and the
Michelints"
Her husband lived as he pleased,
coming home just when it suited him,
sometimes at daylight, always with the
prcteXt Of having been very busy; never
bothering himself much, however, TO find
excuses, 80 certain did he feel that no sus
picion could ever enter the candid mind of
his wife.
But one morning she received an anony
nous letter.
She remained for the moment thunder
struck, being too upright OF heart TO COM
prehend the infamy OF denunciations, 20
despise the missire whose author pretend
ell to be inspired 10y wish for her happi-
ness, by the hatred OF evil, and by the
love Of truth
II was thus revealed To her that her
husband had for TWO years been intimate
with young widow, Mime. Rosset, and
used to pass all his evenings with her.
She did not know how 10 dissimulate,
or to feisn, VI 10 spy, or TO lay plans.
When he came home Ia breakfast, she
simply threw down the letter before him,
and hed sobbing to her room. He had
ample time to understand, to prepare his
answer; and, having done 50, he went
and knocked at his wife's door. She
opened it at once, with her eyes down,
not daring TO look at him. He smiled,
sat down, took her on his lap; and then in
gentle, half mischievous tone, he said:
my little darling, 1t is true that
Mime. Rosset is friend OF mine; have
known her for ten years and think very
highly of her; and l may also tell You
that know twenty other families whom
i have never talked to you about-simply
because know YOU don't care about So
ciety and receptions and introductions,
anu all that sort OF thing. But now, n
order 10 make an end of all these infa-
nous denunciations, ! beg you will k
good enough to dress yourself immediate
ly after breakfast, and let us make visit
together to this young lady; am sure
you viii become good friends right of.
She hugSed and kissed her husband;
and, moved by that feminine curiosity
which, once aroused, Is not easily put 10
sleep again, She did not even refuse to pay
a visit TO this unknown woman, OF whom
she could not help still feeling little
suspicious She felt instinctiyely that a
danger, once known, is half averted.
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